848 | sFloww w w . d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o mBack-off MechanismIf the sampling rate for an interface is set to a very low value, the CPU can get overloaded with flowsamples under high-traffic conditions. In such a scenario, a binary back-off mechanism gets triggered,which doubles the sampling-rate (halves the number of samples per second) for all interfaces. The backoffmechanism continues to double the sampling-rate until CPU condition is cleared. This is as per sFlowversion 5 draft. Once the back-off changes the sample-rate, users must manually change the sampling rateto the desired value.As a result of back-off, the actual sampling-rate of an interface may differ from its configured samplingrate. The actual sampling-rate of the interface and the configured sample-rate can be viewed by using theshow sflow command.sFlow on LAG portsWhen a physical port becomes a member of a LAG, it inherits the sFlow configuration from the LAG port.Extended sFlowExtended sFlow is supported fully on platform ePlatforms c s and z support extended-switch information processing only.Extended sFlow packs additional information in the sFlow datagram depending on the type of sampledpacket. The following options can be enabled:• extended-switch — 802.1Q VLAN ID and 802.1p priority information• extended-router — Next-hop and source and destination mask length.• extended-gateway — Source and destination AS number and the BGP next-hop.Use the command sflow [extended-switch] [extended-router] [extended-gateway] enable command. Bydefault packing of any of the extended information in the datagram is disabled.Use the command show sflow to confirm that extended information packing is enabled, as shown inFigure 41-6.Note: The entire AS path is not included. BGP community-list and local preference information are notincluded. These fields are assigned default values and are not interpreted by the collector.
